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βρύχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βρύχημα βρύχηματος

Structure: βρυχηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. bellowing, roaring

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πεσόντοσ δὲ μετὰ στεναγμοῦ καὶ βρυχήματοσ εὐθὺσ ἀφῆκεν ὁ θυμὸσ αὐτόν, καὶ γενόμενοσ παρ’ ἑαυτῷ καὶ τοὺσ φίλουσ ἰδὼν ἀφώνουσ ἑστῶτασ ἑλκύσασθαι μὲν ἐκ τοῦ νεκροῦ τὴν αἰχμήν ἔφθασε, παῖσαι δ’ ἑαυτὸν ὁρμήσασ παρά τὸν τράχηλον ἐπεσχέθη, τῶν σωματοφυλάκων τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτοῦ λαβόντων καὶ τὸ σῶμα βίᾳ παρενεγκόντων εἰσ τὸν θάλαμον. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 51 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. bellowing

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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